Sixth human foot found in Canada

[Redder Lurtz]

Something's afoot here I think...

 

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Sixth human foot found in Canada

[Fink]

"If it has hands, feet or a face then its not us"

Sergei

[captainharris]

"Police, who are not speculating on this, are trying to determine the origins of the feet and whether they are any links between the discoveries."

 

Erm.... 6 different feet have been washed up within a few miles of eachother only a few weeks apart and the police are wondering it these cases are somehow connected...?

[The Acolyte]

"If it has hands, feet or a face then its not us"

Sergei

 

Was thinking more The Shield but good call. :smile:

[Tom R]

Post the story you cunt, not just the link.

 

Don't make me fuck your sister...

[dirty_sanchez]

Has Heather Mills been involved in a boating accident?

[Anubis]

Erm.... 6 different feet have been washed up within a few miles of eachother only a few weeks apart and the police are wondering it these cases are somehow connected...?

Oh come on, it happens all the time. It's summer, it's hot, people are outside doing DIY with powertools and a few beers, they accidently cut a foot off, everyone laughs once the bleeding stops, and they flush the foot down the toilet where it hits the sewer and heads out to open water....

[Stu Monty]

Terrible pun.

 

Good linkage.

[Fugitive]

I'm sick of all these downbeat threads.

 

Dave really needs to put his foot down and stamp them out.

[stringvest]

The scary thing is, they've all got exactly the same DNA.

[Fugitive]

The scary thing is, they've all got exactly the same DNA.

 

They are probably all Austrian.

[Alan Sex]

Neko got hungry.... but doesn't have a taste for feet.

[neko]

Neko got hungry.... but doesn't have a taste for feet.

 

too boney......

 

i really don't remember doing this at all.

[Flying Pig]

I bet Canadian shoe shops are replacing their display stands to all left footers.

[melons]

Oh come on, it happens all the time. It's summer, it's hot, people are outside doing DIY with powertools and a few beers, they accidently cut a foot off, everyone laughs once the bleeding stops, and they flush the foot down the toilet where it hits the sewer and heads out to open water....

 

Top avatar SM, can you explain the old one now??

 

Swiper no swiping, swiper no swiping, SWIPER NO SWIPING!

[neko]

Latest severed foot a hoax, coroner says.......

 

Globe and Mail Update

 

June 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM EDT

 

The B.C. Coroners Service has determined that remains found in a shoe near Campbell River Wednesday are not human, the organization said Thursday in a press release.

 

The BCCS, along with a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist, examined the remains and determined that a “skeletonized animal paw was inserted into the shoe with a sock and packed with dried seaweed,” the release said.

 

The BCCS described the hoax as “reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons” and is no longer investigating the incident.

[neko]

full article......

 

June 19, 2008 at 5:46 PM EDT

 

A prankster is responsible for a sixth foot that washed on British Columbia shores, a hoax that raised fears among the families of missing persons and prompted the RCMP to launch a separate investigation.

 

The B.C. Coroner's Service announced Thursday that the foot found on a Vancouver Island beach the day before was not human, but in fact a skeletonized animal paw stuffed inside a sock and a running shoe.

 

“We have to say that this is a despicable act; we're not going to sit back and let this go,” said RCMP Const. Annie Linteau, who confirmed the prank. “We're now embarking on a whole new investigation, which could involve public mischief charges against the person or persons involved.”

 

She described the prank as “absolutely unbelievable” and urged people with information to contact police.

Kirsten Stevens and Sally Feast and Darla MacDonald on a beach in Campbell River June 18, 2008 near where another severed foot has been found and Stevens believes the foot could belong to one of their family members who died in a plane crash in 2005. This is the sixth foot to wash up on the B.C. coast in recent months. RCMP say it's a right foot in a Black Adidas running shoe.

 

Kirsten Stevens and Sally Feast and Darla MacDonald on a beach in Campbell River June 18, 2008 near where another severed foot has been found and Stevens believes the foot could belong to one of their family members who died in a plane crash in 2005. This is the sixth foot to wash up on the B.C. coast in recent months. RCMP say it's a right foot in a Black Adidas running shoe.

 

“We're talking many families of missing loved ones who are really watching and wondering that every time something is found is it their loved one?”

 

A woman walking along a beach Wednesday near Campbell River, on Vancouver Island, said she spotted some bones protruding from the shoe.

 

Authorities believed it was the sixth human foot to wash ashore in the past year.

 

The first right foot was found Aug. 20 on Jedidiah Island in the Strait of Georgia. On Aug. 26, another right foot was found inside a man's size 12 Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island.

 

A third was found in the same area, on the east side of Valdez Island, on Feb. 8.

 

The fourth foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, only a kilometre away from the site in Ladner where the fifth foot, a size 10 left foot, was found on Monday.

 

The coroner's service said a forensic pathologist and anthropologist examined the running shoe found on Wednesday and determined a “skeletonised animal paw” had been placed inside the shoe and packed with dried seaweed.

 

The revelation didn't stop the growing public interest in the story. On websites and around water coolers, the found feet are a hot topic, replete with wild explanations and conspiracy theories.

 

Organized crime, the mob and maniacs are also up for consideration.

 

“Methinks that the gangsters have been attempting to provide cement shoes to their victims but are economizing and only doing half of the job,” wrote one wag.

 

Others muse about a plane crash off the West Coast in which the bodies were never found, while other speculate that they could be illegal immigrants who were stowed away about a vessel that sank off the shores of B.C.

 

There was a small plane crash in the Gulf Islands west of the B.C. mainland three years ago and the coroner's office has been trying through DNA matches to determine if the floating feet belong to victims of that crash.

 

So far, investigators have said DNA testing has failed to match with any known samples.

[Alan Sex]

We need to get a good gumshoe on this.

[neko]

We need to get a good gumshoe on this.

 

you know AS, i'll never change my avatar, but if i did i'd want to be just like you........

[neko]

the latest twist in the story......

 

globeandmail.com: Two feet found on B.C. coast from same person

[Stouffer]

Ah come one now, there's no (h)arm in it.

[neko]

Ah come one now, there's no (h)arm in it.

 

this story definitely has legs though.....

 

boom boom

 

every one a maserati !

[jamespp]

for someone who doesn't read the forum often, whats the quaresma thing about?

[neko]

for someone who doesn't read the forum often, whats the quaresma thing about?

 

i think you want the FF for that answer

[neko]

another 'step' in the right (or left) direction......

 

VANCOUVER — Police are one step closer to solving the puzzle of the washed-up, severed feet.

 

Forensic investigators have now connected one of the five feet found at scattered locations along the B.C. coast to a specific individual, RCMP spokesman Corp. Pierre LeMaitre confirmed yesterday.

 

The officer told CTV News that the foot belonged to a depressed man who has been missing. Police have ruled out foul play, he added.

 

Meanwhile, in yet another bizarre development in the intriguing case, a coroner on the picturesque San Juan Islands in the Strait of Georgia disclosed that a footless body was discovered 16 months ago on the eastern shores Orcas Island, the most northern of the American island chain.

 

But despite the torrent of publicity over the five severed feet in recent weeks, coroner Randall Gaylord said that he did not advise British Columbia investigators about the discovery until Thursday.

 

“I certainly could have made an inquiry sooner. No question about that,” said Mr. Gaylord, “but I never knew enough about the missing feet, what size or type of shoe they were in, or whether they were men or women.

 

“And who do you contact, and what are you going to find out?”

A possible connection between the detached feet found in B.C. and the Orcas Island footless body came to him just recently when he was reading a newspaper about the case in his kitchen. “There was a report of shoes with no bodies. And I thought, gee, I have a body with no shoes. I wonder if they could be related,” Mr. Gaylord recounted.

 

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just so everyone gets this - the san juan islands are part of america, but only a few miles from the border and the canadian gulf islands where the feet were found.

 

ever read the newspapers there, gaylord ? some americans think the world ends at their borders....unbelievable !